Hello one and all I am writing my first story to be read by everyone who will listen to what I have to say. I have submitted my views on this particular section of under my email name. Because of this I have made friends as well as enemies so if you wish to review my story, please tell the truth on how you feel.

Prelude

In the Middle Ages, when Christianity had become the dominant faith after the conversion and fall of the Roman Empire, fear had gone through the top rulers of the faith, stationed in Rome. This fear was that people weren't following the faith through and through like they had set down. So Rome through Pope Innocent III had begun the Heretic Hunt, through inquisitioners people were gripped with the fear of excommunication, so they had chosen to live without ever questioning the faith. However the Church wasn't completely satisfied, so they had begun the sales of indulgences, which means if you give Rome a certain amount of money, they would 'see to it that you get to heaven'. This caused one of it's own, Martin Luther, to lay the foundations of the Protestant faith. 100 years before that time the inquistioners had begun hunting anyone who held the magick of the earth that could have dated back since the dawn of humanity. However the Church was under the impression that these people were agents of their embodiment of evil Lucifer. So the inquisitioners set out on the places where people still worshipped and lived by the old ways.

For 300 or so years the witch hunt was so brutal, whether they killed actual witches or disillusioned Christians is unknown, but the majority of those killed were women because women were believed to be 'more likely to submit to a demon's advances'. When the King of England, James, the first person to translate the Bible into English, it is believed that the original translation of 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live' was ' Thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live', but King James changed the verse because he feared witches more than poisoners and the witch hunt got more intense because of this. Whole bloodlines of witches dating back to the ancient days were wiped out because of these hunts. It wasn't until the Salem Witch Hunts of 1692 that witch-hunts were no longer necessary or moral. Witches were believed to be wiped out after this time, but in the last century they had survived underground and have come back to life. I Vortus the Undying a new writer to am a Wiccan and I will tell a story about a witch named Loreena who is to face death in the year 1415 in Ireland, and she gives a young priest named Brother Williams from England an early lesson on what the witch hunts were really like….